Well, kick me down if this is a brainfart instead of a good idea.
While checking and re-working the use of HttpRequestMethod it occured to me that anything startign with a pure ascii word would now be identified as a valid METHOD_UNKNOWN. (nee. HttpRequest::sanityCheckStartLine)
Also, that what I have seen of during debugging attempts at transparently passing P2P and IM traffic. That largely those protocols start with a plain-ascii method not belonging to HTTP.
The idea that comes to me immediately is to make the forward handle a dispatcher/manager where the currently compiled additional-modules register themselves against various parameters (method, url-protocol, etc) and the forwarder hands of the connection data to them after checking these details. Defaulting to HTTP when unknown.
This would enable easily plugged in extras to squid-3. Feedback? Amos -- Please use Squid 2.6STABLE17+ or 3.0STABLE1+ There are serious security advisories out on all earlier releases.
